This article compares computer software tools that compare files, and in many cases directories or folders, whether it is their main purpose or as part of more general file management.

• Mac Diff Tool
• Mac Folder Diff
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• Best Diff Tool Mac

General[edit]

Basic general information about file comparison software.

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Compare features[edit]

API / editor features[edit]

Other features[edit]

Some other features which did not fit in previous table

Aspects[edit]

What aspects can be / are compared?

Timezone effects[edit]

When files are transferred across time zones and between Microsoft FAT and NTFSfile systems, the timestamp displayed by the same file may change, so that identical files with different storage histories are deemed different by a comparer that requires the timestamps to match. The difference is an exact number of quarters of an hour up to 95 (same minutes modulo 15 and seconds) if the file was transported across zones; there is also a one-hour difference within a single zone caused by the transition between standard time and daylight saving time (DST). Some, but not all, file comparison and synchronisation software can be configured to ignore the DST and time-zone differences.^[39] Software known to have daylight-saving compensation is marked in the Aspects table.

See also[edit]

Mac Diff Tool

References[edit]

1. ^Scooter Software
2. ^Coode Software
3. ^Compare++ Operating system information
4. ^Michael Kifer
5. ^Ediff requires a diff utility to function. As of December 2017, diff is not bundled with Emacs or Windows, so use of Ediff in a Windows environment requires installation of both Emacs and a diff implementation like GNU diff.
6. ^PrestoSoft
7. ^Microsoft
8. ^NeXT Product Marketing (Fall 1993). 'What's New in Release 3.2?'. NEXTSTEP In Focus. NeXT Computer, Inc. 3 (4). Retrieved 18 July 2014.
9. ^Guiffy Software
10. ^JetBrains
11. ^jedit.org
12. ^'Otto Bruggeman'. Archived from the original on 2012-04-15. Retrieved 2006-01-12.
13. ^Installing Kompare in Windows
14. ^Stephen Kennedy
15. ^Meld/Windows
16. ^Notepad++ compare plugin
17. ^Pretty Diff
18. ^tkdiff
19. ^Christian Ghisler
20. ^Bare Bones Software, Inc.
21. ^vim license
22. ^Microsoft
23. ^Dean Grimm
24. ^ ^abWinMerge in Wine
25. ^USC CSSE
26. ^ ^abCompare logical sections (class, methods)
27. ^Examdiff
28. ^Examdiff
29. ^ ^abVisual Rename
30. ^https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/diff-highlight
31. ^gnu.org Support-for-Version-Control
32. ^through a plug-in
33. ^through a plug-in
34. ^UTF8, UTF16, MBCS, SJIS, over 150 file encoding and character set formats
35. ^Notepad++ FTP plugin
36. ^'tortoisehg / stable / wiki / FAQ —'. Bitbucket.org. Archived from the original on 2010-07-15. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
37. ^'Using WinMerge with other tools – WinMerge 2.12 Manual'. Winmerge.org. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
38. ^'About'. WinMerge. Retrieved 2010-07-06.
39. ^Example: 'Beyond Compare' help describes a user setting 'timezone differences – ignores timestamp differences that are multiples of an exact hour.'

I use meld on Linux and I am able to compare two pieces of text without having to save them in files. Is there something similar for Mac and Windows?

Mac Folder Diff

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NotePad++ with the Compare plugin on Windows:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/npp-compare/

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TextWrangler for OS X does a nice diff of either files on disk or documents being edited.

That would allow you to make two empty docs, paste your text into each of them and run the diff.

The meld tool has been ported to Mac OS X and is available via 'fink'.

You will need to install fink first however, and I believe you can get started here.

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